EP3: Terelj, Mongolia to Devonport/Auckland, New ZealandDATES: June 1-2, 2006EV: Sighting at ferry in Devonport (just outside of Auckland)TASKS: UNKNOWNTEAMS: 9 left after episode

EP4: Devonport/Auckland, New Zealand to Queenstown, New ZealandDATES: June 3-4, 2006EV: Rented field?, teams spotted on flight from Queenstown in South New ZealandTASKS: UNKNOWNTEAMS: 8 left after episode

EP5: Devonport/Auckland, New Zealand to UNKNOWN (maybe Singapore)DATES: June 5-6, 2006EV: Teams spotted on flight from Queenstown to Auckland (en route to Singapore)TASKS: UNKNOWNTEAMS: 7 left after episode

EP6: UNKNOWN to UNKNOWNDATES: June 7-8, 2006EV: UNKNOWNTASKS: UNKNOWNTEAMS: 6 left after episode

EP9: Grand Baie, Mauritius to MadagascarDATES: June 13-14, 2006EV: Finnish taxi driver's testimonyTASKS: UNKNOWNTEAMS: 4 left at END of episode (brunette M/F eliminated? -- only team not accounted for in Finland)

Updated route spec, best as I can figure it out from everything posted so far...

EP9: Grand Baie, Mauritius to MadagascarDATES: June 13-14, 2006EV: Finnish taxi driver's testimonyTASKS: UNKNOWNTEAMS: 4 left at END of episode (brunette M/F eliminated? -- only team not accounted for in Finland)

EP11: Lohja, Finland to UNKNOWNDATES: June 18-20, 2006EV: UNKNOWNTASKS: UNKNOWNTEAMS: 3 teams left at END of episode (Lynn/Karlyn eliminated, sent as decoys to NYC?)

For what I know, I would fix it for these parts:

EP9: Grand Baie, Mauritius to MadagascarDATES: June 13-14, 2006EV: Told by one racer "couple" to a finnish woman in the trainTASKS: UNKNOWNTEAMS: 4 left at END of episode (brunette M/F eliminated? -- only team not accounted for in Finland)

EP10: Madagascar to Helsinki, Finland(seen arriving to the airport from unknown location june 16th)DATES: June 15-17, 2006 EV:Told by one racer "couple" to a finnish woman in the trainTASKS: Climbing tower at Helsingin Olympiastadionilla, not known how they travelled from Helsinki to Tampere (maybe with a train since teams with cameras spotted in the train station), proceed to Ylojarvi and back to Tampere, train to Turku where cars waiting at the station, task at quarries in Lohja -- all spottings June 16(??) TEAMS: 4 left at START of episode (Asian team, blonde F/F, Lynn/Karlyn, Tyler/James) -- NEL?

EP11: Lohja, Finland to UNKNOWNNot known if Lohja was the pitstop, if so then I'm dissapointedDATES: June 18-20, 2006EV: UNKNOWNTASKS: UNKNOWNTEAMS: 3 teams left at END of episode (Lynn/Karlyn eliminated, sent as decoys to NYC?)

AT THE MOMENT AR 10- FILMING IS GOING ON ALL AROUND THE WORLD, AND THERE MAY BE ONE SPOILERTHAT INTRESTS MANY. INFORMATION IS NOT SPOILING THE FINAL RESULTS, ONLY THE PLACES WHERE THE COMPETITORS HAVE VISITED.

ACCORDING TO THE MANY WEB PAGES THE FILMING TOOK PLACE (JUNE 16TH) IN HELSINKI AND TURKU. SOME SOURCES CLAIM THAT THE COMPETITORS HAVE VISITED THE OLYMPIC STADIUM IN HELSINKI BUT EVIDENTLY HAVE VISITED ALSO TURKU. ALTHOUGH IT'S NOT A FACT YET AND APPARENTLY TO PROVE IT WE HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL SEPTEMBER WHEN THE 10TH PRODUCTION TERM WILL BE SHOWED IN USA. ACCORDING TO THE SPOILERS THE COMPETITORS HAVE ALSO VISITED MONGOLIA, MAURITUS AND KUWAIT AND FOR SURE THIS INFORMATION IS ALMOST PROVED. DURING THE 10 TH TERM THE RACE MOVES AROUND THE EARTH WESTWARDS BEFORE IT HAS BEEN THE OTHER WAY.

Signal, do you know if all the Finland stuff happened 6/16? It seems like a lot. Maybe we have 2 legs in Finland before they move on to Spain?

Well, they were seen in Helsinki-Vantaa airport 16th, climbing the Helsinki Olympic Stadium tower 16th, Tampere and Ylöjärvi 16th, Turku 16th, so it looks like all happened same day. But I have to say that many have said that they've seen the participants here in the weekend (17th-18th) also, but cannot confirm that. The cars were seen in the highway probably going to port of Hanko in early last week, but I think they were just returning the cars to Germany, since the cars seen had german license plates just like in Turku. As mentioned before they were supposed to go Lohja with cars from Turku and there's no sightings after Turku so they could've went anywhere, it's possible that there was other tasks to do somewhere and maybe they had to spent a night somewhere? that's just a guess.

It does seem quite a lot for one day, but example train trip Helsinki-Tampere takes just 2 hours, Ylöjärvi is less than 20 km's from Tampere, and train from Tampere to Turku takes about 2 hours also, so it's not that much travelling.

To me it sounds very boring actually, so I really hope they went some other places.

DEPART Madagascar on June 15Flights leave Antananarivo at 12:50am, arrive in Helsinki at either 4:25 or 7:25pmTeams are bunched somewhere (tower at Helsinki Olympic Stadium) until morning of 6/16Gates open at 9:00am? (according to website)Teams climb tower (roadblock?)Take 2 hour train trip to Tampere, arrive around noon?Go to Ylojarvi (arrive around 12:30), do task (detour)?Go back to Tampere train stationTake 2 hour train trip to Turku (depart around 3:00?)Depart Turku around 5:20 (time teams were sighted)Teams proceed to Lohja (arrive around 7:30? Signal -- 2 hours to get from Turku to Lohja?)Do something at mines in Lohja?Pitstop?

So, uh, I think I *may* have come across racers today. I do not have actual 100% confirmation that it was TAR, but this is what I saw:

~1:15 PM, 6/24/0649th between 6th and Rock. Center, right outside one of the NBC entrances (not that they were going in).All female African-American team (as mentioned in that thread that was linked to on the last page)Getting out of a cab that was from Newark (which made it stand out more from the traditional NYC cabs).Two crew with them - one boom mic operator, one cameraman.

The girls got out of the cab and asked a local for directions - the mic operator then had to get the person to sign a release and the team looked very impatient while they were waiting.

The biggest tip-off for me was that one of the crew had a yellow "K" tag, and having just re-watched Season 7, it looked exactly like the tags that everyone has on their bags.

Again, I hope this isn't a fluke, and apologize if this was inadvertently a team on some other reality show - but given the timeline I'm reading, this might just fit."

Hopes this helps.!!!

Checked and this makes sense that the girls were sent to New York directly from Helsinki as DECOYS. Newark International Airport (EWR) lists flights from Helsinki arriving via Continental Airlines from Helskini with plane changes in either Copenhagen or Amsterdam. Arrival times are 11:45AM and 11:50AM. This would fit nicely with trip through customs and taxi ride (26 miles) to Rockefeller Center arriving at 1:15PM.

Just for the record, there are 72 flights/connecting flights from Barcelona to Newark Airport with three arriving in mid-morning, but one leaves at 3:30AM, the other two are with the same connections in Amsterdam and Copenhagen as the two flights from Helsinki to EWR. So the girls could have, might have, left from Barcelona for Newark.

Don't they traditionally hit a US state or territory before hitting the mainland/final city for customs reasons? The direction of this race makes me think it's San Juan again also. I wonder if the the US Virgin Islands could accomplish the same thing as San Juan? San Juan to Atlanta or Houston has many non-stop flight choices.

Don't they traditionally hit a US state or territory before hitting the mainland/final city for customs reasons?

Sups, In Race 5, they went directly from Calgary to the U.S. That's because in some Canadian airports you can pass through U.S. Immigration and Customs at the Canadian airport. A couple of years ago, I flew from Montreal to Chicago and when we landed it was no different than a U.S. to U.S. flight.

I've also flown from Shannon, Ireland to Atlanta. There, you go through U.S. immigration in Ireland, but still must go through Customs in Atlanta.

I'd love to see them go to Antigua. I went there a year ago. It's so beautiful but St. Lucia was by far the most beautiful island I saw. According to the link they could come through the Bahamas. That would be a good choice also.

There's room for a leg in between Finland and Spain. The team spotted in Croatia way, way back wouldn't fit our timeline as it stands, but maybe they were a test team, like TPTB have said run the race ahead of time? So maybe Dubrovnik could fit into our race here? Might give you Googlers something to do while we're waiting for the next solid piece of info. ETA: if the racers were in Dubrovnik, they would have been there between June 18 and 20, give or take a day on the front end.

Few sources have said that the race continued to Belarus after Finland. And I don't think it was just a connection point.Oh and also there is some info about their "task" in Ylöjärvi. Obviously it was some kind of obstacle course at swamp The landowner of the area is keeping his mouth shut, but nearby neighbours reported a helicopter and lots of people including security who kept the nosy ones far. The famous clue box was also seen there.